Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

The world rests on principles.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.